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About the Role

O'Reilly is searching for an experienced software engineer to join our engineering team! Here, you'll have the opportunity to design and build a diverse set of features, working hand-in-hand with product managers, UX designers, and other engineers. You'll refine product direction alongside product managers, tackle user problems through innovative solutions, and contribute to a strong engineering culture by maintaining 100% code reviews and mentoring junior engineers. Additionally, you'll collaborate with QA and Ops to troubleshoot product issues, ensuring a seamless user experience.

In this role, your focus will be on building and maintaining our back-end services. A bulk of our microservices are primarily built using Python & Django. More recently as a team, we have ventured into building JavaScript & Node.js services that stitch together individual microservices to be consumed by client-side applications. Our front-end applications use React + Redux and modern semantic HTML and CSS.

Salary Range: $98,000 - $144,000

What You’ll Do

Leverage Python and Django to develop and maintain our back-end services
Collaborate effectively in a fast-paced Agile environment, working with teammates across time zones
Champion automated testing and actively participate in code reviews, fostering a collaborative learning environment
Maintain a complex inter-service asynchronous messaging architecture (using RabbitMQ or Google Pub/Sub)
Manage asynchronous tasks and queues using Celery

What You’ll Have

Required:

2 years experience on teams building modern web applications and services
Experience in Python and Django
Django REST Framework Experience
Celery Experience
Demonstrate the ability to learn and grasp new concepts quickly

Preferred:

Experience using an asynchronous messaging broker like RabbitMQ
Docker Experience
Py.test Experience
Node.js Experience
Kubernetes Experience
CI/CD experience using Jenkins, Argo, or similar
Test-driven development
React Experience

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